skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is that you can’t support HTTP without completely undermining HTTPS.

If you support HTTP at all, you’re damaging the experience for the almost everyone that could have used HTTPS: almost no one will get the HTTPS version unless you deliberately push them over to it, which you will only be able to do after page load by some JavaScript-based user-agent or feature-based sniffing, so now the page loads and then reloads immediately, every time the user visits your site by URL, and you’re causing trouble with search engines, and it’s a regular maintenance burden because no one treads this path so you’ll have to figure out the cut-off points yourself as certificates change, and on top of that it’ll always be subject to a downgrade attack, so now you can’t ever depend on HTTPS.

Remember also that various new features are gated on using a secure context (which roughly means “HTTPS”), like HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. And as for entering passwords or the likes, you’d be opening quite a can of worms if you allow that over cleartext HTTP.

So… yeah, it sounds nice in theory, but I think that it’s just not practical or advisable to retain plain HTTP support. Even supporting TLS < 1.2 or older cipher suites is steadily becoming inadvisable, only to be used on a few sorts of websites. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that you can’t support ancient devices without harming things materially for everything else.
Syngen audio is synthesized via Web Audio API rather than sample-based. You can play the author's example projects on itch.io and view their videos on YT to hear in-game audio examples.

https://shiftbacktick.itch.io/
https://youtu.be/WxExTdjoIMo
Future Batteries with Sand, Sea Water and Graphene
I think MOOCs are great for the thing you've been sorta kinda interested in but didn't know where to start. Around the 0%-20% background-info ballpark. For me, my most successful MOOCs have been:

- CS50 at they very beginning of my career ~2015 that brought me to the fundamentals of CS and all that it can do in a very fun way.

- Jazz Appreciation from UTAustin (https://www.edx.org/course/jazz-appreciation-3). I lived near a Jazz club and I often heard snippets of performances while walking by, but I felt like I needed a music background to really appreciate what I was hearing. I randomly spotted this course and I learned which eras of Jazz I like best, common themes in music, common instrument combinations, and the final project encouraged me to go listen to Jazz myself. It's become a fun part of my life in a way that a short YouTube intro or just walking into the club wouldn't have been able to inspire. Part of that was likely the predefined path it offered and Jeffrey Helmer's enthusiasm for teaching the course.

Ultimately, MOOCs can very well be a way to procrastinate on a professional or personal level from just diving into the thing you already have the basics for. But it can just as easily be a way to open you up to something you never thought was in your wheelhouse in a structured path. Blog posts, documentation, and most YouTube videos are too static to serve an absolute beginner that needs questions answered early, consistently, and frequently.
This is as ridiculous as saying "Stop watching videos". Everyone's online courses and video content is completely different and unique to their level of experience. Most online courses hold your hand through building a project: that's a good thing, for those who want that content.
They may be now but that's not surprising if you have a solid foundation of a highly successful business to copy efficiently and then can allocate more resources to additional features to differentiate?
Ever since he joined Shark Tank that show has become one of
the best things to happen to our economy in the 2000's.

He's exposing millions of Americans to the long term
benefits of a value creation, non-linear thinking, honesty
is the best policy, builder/craftmanship mindset.

When I was a kid growing up far away from Silicon Valley we
had "The Apprentice" to learn from. Shark Tank (especially
Cuban, but really the whole cast), is orders of magnitude
better.
"Stop posting stories I don't like!" /s

Seriously though? It's useful to see people's perspective and the discussion around them (and personally speaking, I come to HN for the discussion) is useful and insightful -often more so than the original article.

Click-baity titles are annoying, though. I'll grant you that...
I think at certain levels of wealth, being "normal" is simply impossible. But there are people who use their fortunes for altruistic causes and that should be celebrated. Unfortunately, most of these cases simply highlight fundamental issues in other areas of our society.
Not really though. Not in the way it does today. Medicine up to 1900 was largely ineffective. And most of what we consider modern medicine has its roots in the 1940s. Which coincidentally is about the same time employer provided health insurance started becoming common.
>A 401k has the specific purpose of helping individuals fund their retirement years, something society has agreed is worth providing some benefit for. There is an element of intention to the exemption and it serves a specific purpose.

A 401k has the specific purpose of helping large businesses maintain a competitive advantage over small businesses. If the government wanted to help individuals fund their retirement years, then there is no reason to involve employers in the tax code. They could simply issue the same rules and contribution limits for IRAs.

But they don't. They punish you if you're employed by an employer that doesn't offer a 401k, by setting your contribution limit to a paltry $6k while 401k participants get tens of thousands, and your contribution limit is zero if your spouse is eligible for a 401k and your income is over a certain amount.
Nevertheless, the Culture was not a dictatorship at any point during its development, so the term anarchy seems more accurate.
This is both proof of how far Detroit had fallen and at the same time a sign that it is slowly recovering. Detroit is full of alleys, the vast majority can no longer be traversed. As a kid I do remember trash trucks moving along the alley.

I also remember a black man with a horse and wagon who bought scrap metal and rags. He would ring a bell, my Mother didn't always have something to sell but she would always come out and visit. He also acted as a neighborhood sentinel and if he saw a crime being committed he would get someone to call it in.

As a young kid we'd use the alleys as our own private system of trails. I never saw the city kept them clean but I'm assuming they did. Then sometime in the eighties it stopped. Then a dozen years later they stopped mowing the grass in the city parks.
> "if only those poor whites would vote for my party, everything would be good"

Or maybe they just have different values than you want them to, and they aren't voting in terms of race?
I think the post is a bit unfortunate in its wording and this seems to have sent you off on a wrong track.

From how I read it, this the post is not specifically about JS and a discussion of the specific technologies mentioned but rather concerned with the following very general situation:

1. There's a user sitting in front of a browser.

2. There's a backend server providing data and points of interaction with that data.

I think the central point of the post now is that we don't have a satisfying technical solution for this situation.

Let's take a look at one of the points you mentioned. Maybe you might find there's actually some valid points in the post and give it a more favourable reread.

> UX when fetching data: What does that have to do with any of the above?

Here, the author of the post writes: "It’s a big burden for engineers to have to manually add loading spinners and error states, and engineers often forget."

I think it's more or less clear how you could implement this using only plain vanilla js. Cumbersome but doable: A very manual, imperative process.

Now let's envision a technology from a possible future:

const twitterFeed = createMagicDataSource("https://twitter.com/...")

const feedComponent = magicRendererComponent(twitterFeed, state => /* HTML like declarative description of the visuals */)

Imagine this was everything you had write in your code to get the following:

* state gets automatically loaded when the first instance of the component is created

* updates are automatically visualized in the client based on the internals of the declaration in the renderer

* you don't have to specify if the updates are done by polling, websockets or whatever: the two magic methods figure this out by themselves.

* you don't have to specify how the data is fetched in the first place. giving the a URI to the `createMagicDataSource` function is enough.

* additional instances of the component don't fetch the data again

* updates are efficient: the sync method only exchanges exactly the data required, only the minimal visual updates are performed

* marking feeds as "seen" by the user is also done by magic and syncs across devices (same for other non-ephemeral ui state).

Now: And I'm sure you'd agree that we are not there yet technologically. But I hope you agree that this would be really nice.
What does it say about their intelligence that they didn't choose to learn about internet scams, given how devastating they can be?
I get you're concentrating on me not listing every mechanism of directly effecting the biochemistry of the reward and reward prediction substrates in the brain. But that doesn't matter.

The distinction I'm trying to get across here is that normal stimuli that are just perceptions are not intrinsically addictive and when you claim one is there is a need for evidence of the claim.
A case like this doesn’t go from 0 to 100 in a week.
This is awesome. I’ve been daydreaming for years that Bezos would launch some kind of “CostCo, but drugs” operation, as I figured he had the infrastructure… but this will do just fine.

He should get insulin and epipen factories running ASAP, those are very high profile scams in the US right now.

Looks like they could use some web dev help…
I would argue that the fact that video content is often so frustrating to scrape is symptomatic of the massive cultural shift the web has seen over the past decade or two.

In the "old" web you could basically right-click -> save anything you want (ignoring plugin blobs for the sake of making my point more compelling). Meanwhile I tried manually scrapping a video from reddit the other day, I succeeded but it was quite the puzzle. First you have to find the right element in the DOM, then find the source which is a playlist for the various qualities available, then there was a 2nd indirection I think, then finally I got the URL of my video file.

My browser obviously knows about all of this but it won't expose it easily. No "Save video as" menu. For some reason I don't expect that Chrome will implement it any time soon...
Some actual competition on generics from a US company, with a much higher salary cost?

Also, from the web site:

- "We are hoping to introduce over 100 additional drugs by the end of 2021."

- "By 2022, building a pharmaceutical factory of our own in Dallas, TX"

I can't shake the feeling it's just a shallow rebranding play using a billionaire's personal brand. Perhaps many americans don't trust non-US brands, even when it comes to generics?
When I was researching stuff I've read a lot of good things about Phoenix, I honestly think socket.io and ws NodeJS libraries are inferior compared to that.

It's just almost pure luck that the guy who wrote uWebSockets (written in C & C++) also wrote NodeJS bindings, otherwise we'll be stuck with the ones with sub-par api, docs, and performance.
The Enemy of the Efficient Market: Collectivism
Thoughts from a Hipster Coffee Shop
I thought they nearly always were. I remember using runners with GitLab years ago.
(Meetup) The Great Search Engine Debate – Elasticsearch, Solr or Vespa?
Correct. I know at least one of the authors who was behaving horribly has severe depression. I don't care how horrible their behavior was, I'm not going to potentially sick an unknown internet mob on a person with suicidal tendencies.
It should work with .leex files. About the .ex files, I would be surprised if it worked. I do have it in mind, though. Actually, gonna add Issue to repo, so I wouldn't forget :)
You are assuming that healthcare is a free market. There is tremendous regulation, encouraged by incumbants, to keep away the competition.

You should look at historical healthcare expenditure by the US.

The problem isn't providing healthcare for all... it is the method and the cost. Universal payer is one way. It is not the best way and in fact Medicare is one reason costs are currently high. It is a bit like a car that used to get 30MPG and now gets 15MPG, and getting worse, and the solution being offered is for all of us to collectively chip in and buy gas for those who can't -- which is not tenable in the longterm because you're spending more and more of the GDP on transportation.

There are other ways of giving everyone coverage. One scheme, would be giving people money. Enough to cover average cost of healthcare plans and say education plans. The individual is then responsible for their own healthcare and has the funds to purchase health insurance. Then you have a healthy market and have mechanisms for the costs to come down.
Australian securities regulator latest to suffer file sharing breach
I actually think it is pretty cut and dry. "Acting in concert" would require some sort of actual agreement between parties, e.g. "I'll buy if you buy." That's not what is going on in WSB. Everything I've seen on WSB should be protected as free speech, as people are just voicing their opinions and explaining how short squeezes work.
I thought it was incredible.

At one point Palihapitiya criticized CNBC host Scott Wopner for defending the way things have always been done on Wall Street at the expense of the Robinhood investment crowd. Palihapitiya argues that the Robinhood crowd, the /r/wallstreetbets subscribers, should win and the institutional investment community should lose when the "smart money" gets the trade this wrong.

I agree with him.
Huh? This is completely backwards.

Poor whites DO focus on economic issues. That's why Trump was able to promise bringing back manufacturing & coal jobs to win over a large segment of voters.

The problem is that all of the Democrat/liberal/left-wing (whichever label you prefer when discussing the core American political divide) completely denies the existence of poor whites and explicitly rejects helping them. For the past 50 years all of the focus on social justice and structural inequalities have been focused exclusively on the urban poor, racial or sexual minorities, etc.

If you're a poor white kid from a trailer park in West Virginia, you might face all the expected problems - poor education, widespread substance abuse, lack of role models, lack of resources... but there's no college scholarships for you, nobody trying to admit you to their university, nobody trying to hire you or promote you.

I spent 2 years as a social worker in West Virginia. The poor whites I worked with weren't racists and weren't stupid. They were just born into poverty and a system which pretends all whites are privileged oppressors.
I think you have the causation exactly backwards - the vain culture is what gave rise to social media. Japanese "social media" including forums and image boards are biased towards being nonentity as possible. Famous cat owners make efforts to be non-entity as possible compared to US ones often involving owner presence even if just dangling a toy and talking to the cat.

Japan sure as hell isn't perfect socially but they demonstrate that the source of social problems may be found in the mirror collectively and not in new technology.
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What? I went to a specialist today. My doctor scheduled the appointment. I had no say in it. This doctor is at one of two offices that I am allowed to choose from based on my insurance's negotiated contracts. This is insurance that is provided by my employer that I had no choice in. When I first saw the doctor, he prescribed meds that I had no choice in. The specific meds he prescribed were chosen as these are what the insurance company would prefer from a clinical perspective although they were extremely unlikely to help. And, on top of all of this, not once was I informed of the cost prior to services being rendered and if I had asked, I would have been told this wasn't possible.

How is any of this libertarian? The libertarian solution would be that only individuals would be allowed to purchase insurance, that insurance would distribute funds to the individual (not the doctor or pharmacy), all fees would be provided prior to service being rendered and individuals would purchase meds without a prescription.
I love that the filing begins with "A Florida man was arrested this morning..."

Florida Man strikes again!
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You may be a self-described noob at whatever you're learning, but it's clear from your outlook that you've had substantial work or life experience to understand complexity as a general phenomenon (i.e. expecting unexpected errors, requiring depth of learning in yourself).

Incremental custom projects is a good way to learn -- not everything has to be "useful for others", especially where learning and practice is concerned.
Biden to Order Justice Department to End Private Prison Use
Nah. It doesn't hurt too bad in most locations.
In spite of the missing question mark, I think the answer is yes

I'm not even particularly bullish about companies being able to improve transparency (it's a really complicated system, the incumbents stand to make/lose enormous sums of money, even when lower cost alternatives exist doctors might be contractually obligated not to discuss them)

But I think that this is a really good step

Similar to toasttab or chownow in the food ordering space
That is a pretty vague statement which I've not seen born out. I work in tech loosely associated with healthcare and I've needed to learn how the different companies involved in the charging process interact and it's super murky - there are a lot of "preferred rates" offered by HCPs to insurers. These "preferred rates" end up leading to the outrageous out-of-network charges some folks have been exposed to. These only seem to exist to justify the constant spending into marketing and sales on both sides to make it appear that negotiations are saving companies 80% of the "cost" in their partnership - while nobody ever ends up paying full price except really unlucky patients. Additionally the system of manufacturer rebates on prescriptions appears to exist solely to bump up the price to insurer - so a 80$ med sold for 160$ with an 80$ rebate might trigger the insurer to pay out 80$ as half the cost of the medication before the patient receives the medicine for free due to the additional rebate - this ends up squeezing the insurer who will squeeze the patient all that much harder when it comes time to settle the monthly fees.

The US system is absolutely lousy with corruption and ends up diverting a large amount of money toward marketing which is rather baffling - whether a treatment is appropriate or not is a decision I'd rather my doctor made on the basis of efficacy - not because one of the companies had a catchy jingle or because one of them recently took him out to lunch.

Hospital administration does cost a fair amount, but be careful here - it's like education - some of those administrators have moved up the seniority chain to positions where they essentially do nothing and get paid for having their ass in a chair - but a lot of that administration goes to fighting against the extremely aggressive tactics of insurers and manufacturers. While those administrators would ideally be unnecessary due to better regulations being in place they do provide justifiable savings for the hospital (it's cheaper than not having them in many cases) under the current system.

It's all really complicated and murky.
I don't disagree with you, just highlighting the frequency of use as of late, and that for me personally the use of them causes me to take a more critical look at what the person utilizing them is actually saying. I personally refrain from using them as I am starting to see them in the light of logical fallacies.

Now on pointing it out, I think a lot of people don't realize they are trying to sway the discourse thru the use of projection rather than logic and reason. I think it is one of those insidious things that just creep in and people don't realize they are doing it. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and think they want to appeal to reason (at lest in life and on HN) and I think many don't see these words work in direct contrast to that, they literally appeal to the mob. I point it out not to gain net fame or quake guns (I will take a pack-o-punch'ed gun in BO Zombies though) but rather I would hope at least one reader of this thread would have the "I never really though about it that way" moments.
> but what exactly is "open" about OpenAI?

Nothing. At this point it's simply openwashing.
This is a huge straw man.

Obviously it would be better for consumers if all these companies got together and used a single standard and shared resources to build out a great network. Also better for consumers would be decoupling the charging network from the manufacturers, like ICE cars and mobile phones do (cables aside, in the latter case). No one is arguing otherwise, the discussion is about why this isn't better for manufacturers.

One way to make it better for manufacturers is to mandate a standard, leaving manufacturers who don't use the standard in violation of statute.

But another way is to wait until there are enough manufacturers of EVs, who actually care about their EVs and not just making compliance vehicles, and who actually care about building EV charging networks and not just building them to comply with consent decrees they're subject to thanks to past illegal behavior, and who as a result actually care about having a useful, usable, reliable network of fast charging stations for cross-country trips.

Right now, only Tesla cares about this.

Eventually, other manufacturers will too. Then, one day, it will make sense for both manufacturers and consumers to use a single shared plug, and all new installations will have it, and old installations will be retrofitted. It will take 10+ years here, but it's already happening in Europe thanks to mandates. In the meantime, mandating everyone follow some terrible standard and support other manufacturers' vehicles is just punitive to the manufacturers who do care, and punitive to future consumers who would like to use a functional system and not be stuck with the garbage that passes for fast charging outside Tesla's network in the US today.

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Healthcare is a disaster because of copyright
and patent laws, not necessarily because of privatization.

https://longbets.org/855/
> ironically the joke meme the rеtard stalinists are now hysterically pretending was "еlection interference" is basically how they interfered with this еlection.

Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in Clickbaitian. Will someone who is please translate?
I'm also using Gitlab for free in production.

We only use the CI/CD feature and host our own runners, free plan serves us well and gitlab.com just works.
I think the space successes have far less to do with privatization, and far more to do with Space X, specifically the combination of a massive amount of capital sloshing about, Elon Musk being good at getting his hands on that capital, and there being an absolute army of engineers who would walk over coals to build rockets.

That NASA hasn't been able to capitalize on this situation is more about NASA's failures than anything else.
why don't you remove it yourself /choosingbeggars